-- Khalidi closely analyzes three historical moments that illuminate how the United States' involvement has, in fact, thwarted progress toward peace between Israel and Palestine. The first moment he investigates is the "Reagan Plan "of 1982, when Israeli prime minister Menachem …
An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments. Khalidi zeroes in on the United States' role as a purportedly impartial, honest broker in 35 years of a failed Palestinian Israeli peace…
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This volume contains essays which examine in an original provocative and critical perspective the fundamental myths, symbols and historical memories that have played an active role in shaping the development of Israeli society.
The Holocaust and the Nakba ("Catastrophe, " Palestinian Israelis' name for the War of Independence) both marked Israel's founding, and these two world-changing events continue to form the generations who have followed. This book shows how these complex histories play out in the…
An intimate look at the divergent histories of Israel's Jews and Arabs, and how their different but tangled histories shape Jewish and Palestinian Israelis' lives today.
Examines a spectrum of antagonism by the East German government and West German radical leftist organizations, ranging from hostile propaganda and diplomacy to military support for Israel's Arab armed adversaries from 1967 to the end of the Cold War in 1989. A historian who has …
In 1993, Amira Hass, an Israeli woman reporter, drove to Gaza to cover a story - and stayed for four years. Hass was the first journalist to live in the grim Palestinian enclave, so feared and despised by many Israelis that in the local idiom, "Go to Gaza" is another way to say …
In 1993, Amira Hass, an Israeli woman reporter, drove to Gaza to cover a story - and stayed for four years. Hass was the first journalist to live in the grim Palestinian enclave, so feared and despised by many Israelis that in the local idiom, "Go to Gaza" is another way to say …
Ilan Pappe traces the history of the Palestine from the Ottomans in the 19th century, through the British Mandate, the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, and the subsequent wars and conflicts which have dominated this region. This second edition includes the events of…